Diocletian persecuted Christianity by ordering Christians to worship him and brutally persecuting them when they did not. It was the last of the great persecutions before his successor would ultimately legalize the Christian religion.
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Diocletian persecuted Christianity in the eastern part of the empire by ordering Christians to worship him and brutally persecuting them when they did not. It was the last of the great persecutions before his successor would ultimately legalize the Christian religion.